Increased elevated cancer rates in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey

11/11/07

Increased elevated cancer rates in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey

PHASE RRHP
Public Health and Sustainable Energy Radiation & Public Health Project
21 Perlman Drive 716 Simpson Ave.
Spring Valley, NY 10977 Ocean City, NJ 08226
(845) 371-2100 (609) 399-4343
palisadesart@aol.com www.radiation.org
odiejoe@aol.com

PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
For Immediate Release

Contact:
Joseph Mangano 484-948-7965 (cell), 609-399-4343 (office)
Susan Shapiro (845) 596-5403 (cell), (845) 371-2100 (office)

CHRISTIE BRINKLEY and ALEC BALDWIN, LOCAL GROUPS TO ANNOUNCE ALARMING NEW ALLEGATIONS OF HEALTH AND SAFETY RISKS CAUSED BY THE INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR REACTORS

Increased elevated cancer rates in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, new evidence of radioactive material leaking from the reactors, declining safety margins, and important new contentions opposing the 20 year license renewal at the troubled Indian Point Nuclear reactors which are leaking strontium 90, tritium and cesium 137 into the Hudson River, will be detailed at a press conference on November 12, 2007, 11:30 a.m. in Room 4102 (4th Floor) at City University of New York Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th Street).

SPEAKERS AND INVITED GUESTS:

Congressman Eliot Engel
Christie Brinkley, celebrity spokesperson and community activist
Alec Baldwin, star of hit series 30 ROCK and community activist
Joseph Mangano MPH MBA, Radiation and Public Health Project
Susan Shapiro JD, (Public Health and Sustainable Energy)
Connie Coker, Rockland County Legislator
Annie Wilson, Sierra Club New York Chapter

WHEN:

November 12, 2007 at 11:30 a.m.

WHERE:

City University of New York Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th Street), Room 4102 (4th Floor)
New York, NY

BACKGROUND:

Entergy Nuclear has requested that federal regulators extend the license of the Indian Point 2 and 3 nuclear reactors in Westchester County, NY, for and additional 20 years beyond their license expirations of 2013 and 2015. To date, neither Entergy nor federal regulators have acknowledged the grave threat to public health posed by these aging nuclear reactors, and that risk increases with each day the aging reactors remain in service.

RPHP and PHASE will be laying out a plan aimed at raising public awareness, and giving citizens of Connecticut, New Jersey and New York the information they need to make intelligent decisions about the continued operation of Entergy's Indian Point nuclear reactors in Buchanan, New York, just 24 miles up river from the heart of New York City. In the post 9/11 world, “Are the health and safety risks of having Indian Point as our neighbor for 20 more years a gamble we can or want to take?”

News conference subjects of note:

1) Release of Radiation and the Public Health Project report on cancer rates near the Indian Point nuclear plant, with time for questions on the report.

2) Information on the PHASE, Radiation and Public Health Project co-sponsored campaign to educate local residents and leaders on the Environmental, Health and Safety risks associated with the proposed 20 year license renewal of the Indian Point reactors.

3) PHASE will be discussing their latest intervener petitions to stop relicensing of Indian Point due to impacts on human health and safety.

4) PHASE will be announcing various dates and locations where they will be collecting signatures to on Intervener Petitions to stop relicensing of Indian Point.

Radiation and Public Health Project (www.radiation.org) is a nonprofit educational and scientific organization, established in 1995 by scientists and physicians dedicated to understanding the relationships between low-level, nuclear radiation and public health. Members of the organization have published 22 medical journal articles and 5 books since 1994 on health risks of nuclear reactors. RPHP is conducting the only study of in-body radiation near U.S. nuclear plants, an analysis of Strontium-90 levels in nearly 5,000 baby teeth, of which over 500 are from the New York metropolitan area

Public Health and Sustainable Energy, is a grassroots, not-for-profit think tank, advocating the development and use of sustainable energy, in an effort to protect public health and safety and to preserve the integrity of our environment. Recently reorganization it, has made headlines recently for its intervention petition to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission regarding the re-licensing of Indian Point.

SUPPORTED BY:
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater (Clearwater)
Citizens Activation Network (CAN)
Sierra Club - New York Chapter

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